I think there's some kind of affinity between and , because they also occur together in 3,2 . But I can't quite fathom what it is. Even though Faruqi has commented extensively on {3,2}, it's such an obscure verse that the whole thing remains murky to me. For discussion, and more examples, of the use of , see 3,2 . One way-- (1a) and (2a)-- of reading this verse takes the two lines as separate and end-stopped, in the usual ghazal way. On this reading the 'midpoints' phrase at the end of the first line, , modifies . Another possible reading-- (1b) and (2b)-- creates enjambment between the lines. On this reading, modifies at the beginning of the second line. If we imagine the verse being performed under mushairah conditions, the listeners would be forced (on either reading) to endure a tantalizing delay. And when the object finally came, they would surely experience a pleasurable jolt of surprise. For 'the beauty spot at the corner of the mouth' suggests that the next thing coming will be something like charm, or blackness, or tyranny. With the first line the hearers' minds have seized on 'beauty spot' as the physical anchor for the imagery; since the progression is to the corner, and then the mouth, the verse seems to be moving outward-- away from the beauty spot, and into larger and wider spaces. But then after that tantalizing wait, the listeners are suddenly plunged without warning as far as possible in the other direction-- not just into the heart of the beauty spot, but into the in the center of the heart of the (barely visible) beauty spot (which itself is located at the corner of a vanishingly small mouth). And now we see the affinity of the 'heart' in 'heart-distracted ones'. Since the 'heart-distracted ones' have wretched or disordered hearts, they no longer have the a fitting and suitable place for a . Instead, their tiny black is located in the tiny black heart of the beloved's tiny black beauty-spot. And in that (external) center of the center of their being, what do they see? Why, nonbeing, of course! The 'nonexistence' is so perfect, and so poetically overdetermined, that the audience must surely have laughed out loud. Why do they see nonexistence? Because the beloved's mouth is, by convention, virtually nonexistent (on this motif see 91,4 ); her beauty spot must be even smaller; then the tiny heart of her beauty spot must contain a that is truly infinitesimal. And of course, the provides mystical connections of one or another kind, or various kinds, which lead directly to the lover's usual death-wish and death-bound condition, and the rapture of (mystical) love-in-death. And all this swooping around among invisibles and minutiae is, of course, a 'show' or 'spectacle' that is 'seen' by the lovers. But surely we aren't surprised. After all, lovers too can progress into inconceivable minuteness-- they can become 'lamp-displays in the bedchamber of the heart of the Moth' ( 81,3 ). graphics/beautyspot.jpg